[AshamedCaptain]

In the past 5 years, how many ARM devices has MS released, other than the Surface Pro X ?

My "anecdote" is actually the majority of MS's history so far. You just can't claim it's scaremongering when they have released so many locked down ARM devices it's hard to remember all of them, and definitely easier to just remember the few "unlocked" devices they have ever released (just the X?).

And also "obviously" we should mention that even in the so-called unlocked Surfaces you are still forced to entirely disable Secure Boot in order to run Linux or _anything else_, with the consequences that implies. For example, it is dubious you will be able to load future versions of Windows, since those will require SB to be on (W11 already officially does, even if it doesn't seem to enforce it -- yet). A properly unlocked device would allow you to load your own signatures while keeping SB enabled.

[Scharkenberg]

> In the past 5 years, how many ARM devices has MS released, other than the Surface Pro X ?

Two Surface Pro X and one Surface Pro 9. I intentionally said "all ARM64 Windows devices", without restricting it to Microsoft ones, no matter how many there have been: it remains the current platform-wide policy, regardless of the FUD.

The rest of your comment is either strawmanning or shifting the discussion further away from where it started and I don't find it worth responding to.

[AshamedCaptain]

> Two Surface Pro X and one Surface Pro 9.

Two devices compared to dozens of locked ones including the original Surface as well as the 2nd RT.

> I intentionally said "all ARM64 Windows devices", without restricting it to Microsoft ones

And how are non Microsoft devices relevant to a discussion of a Microsoft device? You made the same point before...

> The rest of your comment is either strawmanning or shifting the discussion further away

In case you didn't notice, all your 3 replies so far have been filled to the brim with _accusations_ of FUDing, irrelevance, strawmanning and whatever without even mentioning what is irrelevant or why. Everything I say is apparently an irrelevant anecdote, even thought it is actually the historical trend of MS ARM released devices, and the anecdote if anything is the last device only. Why are your arguments any better exactly?